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Mako director warns Maryland budget decisions shifting costs to counties; highlights solar, housing and school-funding disputes
Summary
Michael Sanderson, executive director of the Maryland Association of Counties, told Queen Anne's County commissioners on July 22 that this year’s state budget and related legislation will shift new costs onto counties, and that recent state solar and housing bills leave limited local authority.
Michael Sanderson, executive director of the Maryland Association of Counties (Mako), told the Queen Anne's County Commissioners on July 22 that this year’s legislative and budget decisions in Annapolis are likely to shift new costs and responsibilities onto county governments.
Sanderson and Jack Wilson, a Queen Anne's County commissioner who is Mako’s 2025 president, addressed the commission in a joint presentation. Sanderson summarized the year's state budget choices, saying the state faced multibillion-dollar gaps and that many budget responses involved moving costs or invoicing local governments for services that were previously state-funded. He warned that counties “were squeezed in a number of ways in the governor’s original plan”…
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